{"id":433289,"date":"2026-01-26T00:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433289\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T00:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T00:45:07","slug":"senators-linus-ullmark-to-return-as-backup-against-golden-knights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/433289\/","title":{"rendered":"Senators&#8217; Linus Ullmark to return as backup against Golden Knights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"ottawa-senators\" data-league=\"nhl\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/ottawa-senators\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> goalie will serve as backup on Sunday against the Vegas Golden Knights, the team said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/players\/mads-sogaard\/1aefc33f-554d-40d0-87b4-00d25a66f3bb\" class=\"sn-player-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-player=\"1aefc33f-554d-40d0-87b4-00d25a66f3bb\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Mads Sogaard<\/a> is set to start in net as the Senators look to avoid a third straight loss.<\/p>\n<p>Ullmark returned to the ice with the Senators earlier in January after leaving the team on Dec. 29 for personal reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish netminder has a 14-8-5 record with an .881 save percentage and 2.95 goals-against average on the season.<\/p>\n<p>Sogaard, 25, will be making just his second appearance of the season. He allowed five goals in a relief appearance against the Colorado Avalanche on Jan. 8.<\/p>\n<p>After taking on the Golden Knights on Sunday, the Senators are back in action Wednesday at home against Colorado.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ottawa Senators goalie will serve as backup on Sunday against the Vegas Golden Knights, the team said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-433289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}